After about a year since its release, is the PSP a good investment?? And if so, where might I get the best price? I need places that sell/ship to Canada. (I have checked out BestBuy in U.S. and Canada, and the U.S. BestBuy has the better price of the two.)

www.ebay.com for best price I would rather buy a laptop for portable gaming rather than PSP because the console is cheap but games are hella expensive... $40+ each... TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE Pentium 506 2.66Ghz @ 4000Mhz @ 1.5125v 1024MB Dual Channel DDR400 RAM CL2.5-3-3 40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 360/585

Should be a good investment as they are so close to running decent code on it, which would mean linux, which would mean pirate games (if your into it) and then basically from there the sky's the limit. Like the XBOX, peice of crap for a gaming machine even when it was new (in my oppinion) but once chips became popular it was used for more and more other things. I've never played an xbox game on my 2nd xbox, and as soon as prices are down ill be buying a PSP and probably not for much gaming if at all. Think of it as a high powered graphics machine with extensible storage and wireless conectivity, all in a package GREATLY smaller then a laptop. I was pretty impressed with the widescreen UMD movies that ive seen also, couple that with up to 4 gig of storage, its a pretty impressive piece of machinery. My mind boggles at the uses i could find for it. AMD Athlon64 3500+ 1024MB 512x2 Dual Channel Corsair TwinX Coolermaster Wavemaster 120GB Seagate SATA HDD Gecube X800XT Platinum Logitch 5.1 Surround LG 16x Dual Layer DVD Countle

Ok, thank you to those that replied. To TMP-Man>> eBay was the second place I went to after searching on Google for 'psp +review'. I would rather not in this case go with eBay. A laptop sounds great ... good ones go for $800 and up, and games can get expensive too; and I'm not exactly ready for that yet. --- Now to houston1981>> Interesting thoughts and ideas, I have never heard of anyone who didn't like the XBOX ... I don't own one, so I don't have an opinion either way. Finally, I think I am going to go to BestBuy in the U.S. and see. The closest BestBuy to me is in Amherst, NY - and I just need to know if the sales tax is 8.25%, or not ... just to make sure. Thinking about going this week, any ideas would be great ... Thanks Link to the Prices I have got so far... http://daw3388.googlepages.com/home